The incumbent serves as a museum technician located at a museum facility in a National Park Service organization. The purpose of the position is to perform a full range of complex curatorial support work in a museum. Technician work is typically associated with and supportive of a professional field; work may involve substantial elements of the work of the professional field, but requires less than full knowledge of the field involved.

Duties

The Museum Technician performs tasks associated with collections management under the supervision of the park manager. Steamtown National Historic Site preserves and maintains one of the largest park collections in the National Park Service. Composed of nearly five million items, the collection includes historic objects, natural history specimens, archival documents, and archeological artifacts. Major duties for the position include: Conducting routine housekeeping tasks in the museum exhibits and collections storage areas according to the housekeeping plan. Providing daily and cyclical cleaning and monitoring of artifacts in accordance with standard operating procedures. Monitoring the environment of the museum exhibits and collection storage areas and keeping records on temperature, relative humidity, light exposure, and pests. Creating and maintaining museum records, including accession, deaccession, loan, inventory and cataloging records, in accordance with NPS standards. Conducting Annual Inventory of Museum Property. Handling, cleaning, labeling, and housing objects in the collection according to NPS standards. Performing routine cleaning, stabilization, or preservation of artifacts. Making recommendations for the care of museum collections. Cleaning and monitoring public areas, exhibits, and storage areas. Assisting with accessing, repairing, and troubleshooting collections display fixtures in the exhibits. Reporting object deterioration, damage, movement, or theft to the park curator. Assisting with responses to visitor inquiries, internal and external research requests, and the development of interpretive content related to the park collections. CAREER SEASONAL: Career-seasonal positions include all the benefits of permanent employment but do not provide employment on a full year-round basis. Selectees are guaranteed to work at least 6 months per year but not more than 50 weeks per year. This position is expected to work from approximately late February to early February and in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year (one pay period).

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-02/09/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: To qualify for this position, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: collection management; registration and cataloging of museum materials and records; research archives; using basic preservation, restoration, or conservation methods to manage collections of museum material. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least one full academic year of related graduate level education -OR- Superior Academic Achievement with major study in a related field. Related fields of study include: art, art history, history, museum studies, library science, or other courses closely related to the position to be filled. The education must have been obtained at an accredited college or university. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a Combination of Education and Experience as described above. PLEASE NOTE: You must submit a copy of your transcripts, or a complete list of college courses taken that identifies each course, college or university, semester or quarter hour earned, grade received, and date completed. If you fail to submit, your application will not be considered, and you will be rated ineligible. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Contacts

• Address Steamtown National Historic Site 150 S Washington Ave Scranton, PA 18503-2018 US
• Name: William Jones
• Phone: 4045075774
• Email: [email protected]